Op-ed:

Examining the Abortion Issue

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

“The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard.”                - Joe Biden's words regarding protecting “Roe v. Wade,” and the right to abort “a child” 

 

Before I get into the political aspects regarding the recently leaked “opinion draft” about the SCOTUS most probably repealing “Roe v. Wade,” let me say that I, like most people of conscience, am against abortion with “late term abortion” and so-called “after-birth abortion” being, in my opinion, paramount to premeditated murder. However, unlike some, I also believe that abortion should be allowed under four instances, those being if the mother's life is jeopardized, rape, incest, or if the baby being carried is so medically compromised that it has zero chance of either being born alive or surviving after birth. 

Now here, and while some might be taken aback, I want to state that as one grounded in science fact not religious dogma...and please know that no malice or disrespect to others beliefs is intended here...I do not believe that human life begins at conception, but that it begins when what has become the fetus sees its heart starting to beat. And why do I believe this...because science fact, let alone common sense, proves that without a beating heart human life is unsustainable.

In simple medical terms, after conception what started out as a mere group of dividing cells goes through many stages, from a zygote, to a morula, to a blastocyst, while only becoming an embryo 12 days after conception. And the embryo moniker remains through week six which by then has seen a rudimentary heart having started to beat. And by week ten the fetal heart will have fully developed and begun pumping oxygenated blood through its now recognizable fetus body form, while by this time most women know or at least suspect that they're pregnant as certain bodily changes have already begun happening, whether she's willing to accept that as fact or not.

And at this point I must emphatically state that I believe abortion must not ever be used as a means of either birth control nor as collective population control. And as for the later, one needs to look at and truly understand the words of Planned Parenthood's infamous founder Margaret Sanger. A true racist who, throughout her life, showed disdain for black people, Sanger carried on a not so silent crusade against said black people. In fact, her very thought processes can clearly be seen in her December 10, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble where she stated, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population...”

Now back to week ten where at this point the fetus' heart is now continuously beating, and the once what was but a group of cells is now a living human being growing within its mother's body, still parasitic in nature as it has yet to reach viability, meaning it cannot exist and survive on its own. And still it truly is an individual who has a right to his or her life no matter if the mother now decides she no longer wants or ever wanted the being growing inside her. And it's at this stage in development...the stage where the beating human heart dictates that life has truly begun...where the so called “Heartbeat Law” comes into effect for to take a human life at this point or beyond, in my opinion, remains murder.

And why...because abortion at this point is surely being used as a last attempt means of birth control, something that should have been thought of and used before having unprotected sex. And with there being many contraceptive methods available both over the counter and by prescription, the old adage of “oops” has no place in today's modern society...no place as a reason to have an abortion except in the four instances I've previously mentioned. Remember, acts of passion, at times, do have consequences... consequences that no innocent baby must be forced to pay with his or her own life.

But also know that I personally have no problem with the “morning after pill” for the simple reason that it must be taken within 72-hours after unprotected sex, which basically equates to pre-embryonic time...a time when no heart has formed, no heart is beating...hence one is not technically aborting life. And along with this I believe that abortion must never fall into the “selective” category, meaning if the woman carrying said baby and/or her partner does not want the gender she is carrying...as in male or female with the other 60+ genders that encompass the “woke movement” being but sheer stupidity and utter nonsense...nor should a baby be aborted for treatable conditions like, but not limited to, Downs Syndrome or spinabifida for example, as these children can and do become valuable members of society much loved by their families and friends.

And as for those women who do get pregnant unintentionally and who do not meet the four criteria I previously mentioned, these women should not abort what is their mistake but put the baby they are carrying up for adoption as there are many couples who face infertility issues...couples who would gladly adopt to create their much wanted family... the family human biology itself cannot give them.

Now as for the political aspect of abortion, it is my belief that abortion should never have become a political issue in the first place let alone a federal issue, it should have stayed a state's issue if even that. Spawned of the feminist movement of the 1970's, the entire “It's My Body, My Choice” musings that led to the media's deemed “landmark decision” by the High Court, found in “Roe v. Wade” that the U.S. Constitution protects a pregnant woman's “liberty” to choose to have an abortion without “excessive government restrictions.”

Yet the problem with said ruling always was and still is today, what about the life of the unborn child...what about its right to choose life instead of being disposed of like yesterday's trash. And while Joe Biden...the man who for decades as a senator was against tax funding for abortion...has raised quite a bit of ire amongst those in his own party by his recently calling the unborn what is to be aborted “a child,” as the left still wants you to believe that what will be disposed of or have its body parts sold to the highest "for profit" bidder is anything but “a child.”

Simply, this is but another instance of where the liberal left gets away with what is now, in my personal opinion, government sanctioned “murder,” for once that “child's” heart has started beating it must be afforded the same Constitutional rights and protections as the woman who willingly is taking away said child's right to life...let alone its “liberty and happiness.” Just because the then Supreme Court justices seemed to have misinterpreted the word “liberty” fifty years ago does not mean that said decision cannot be repealed today. Times change, the mood of the people change, politics itself changes, while common sense again gets lost in the shuffle of the left's political agenda game playing.

“Roe v. Wade” and its right to abortion became not just the main catalyst for a decline in American culture, values, and institutions, but yet another distraction to pull us away from the Founders and Framers true intentions regarding federal constitutional law vs. the constitutionally given predominance of “states rights.” 

And in regards to abortion, upon which in passing “Roe v. Wade” in 1973, saw the High Court citing the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment...the very amendment which expanded protections of rights for citizens at the state level, most especially for “freed slaves” who were being subject to new discriminatory state laws...but it was not intended to cancel out the key Tenth Amendment...the amendment stating that, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” 

Simply, “states rights” do in this instance trump federal law. And why...because abortion remains a social issue and not a matter of federal policy. And yet with the High Court's 1973 decision that is exactly what happened in their basically overruling states rights by granting federal protection to those women who chose to about “the child” they carry. And this decision alone allowed the baby killing operation known as “Planned Parenthood” to perform 354,871 abortions in one year alone, while only suggesting to 2,667 women that they place their unwanted “child” up for adoption as opposed to aborting it.

Don't believe me...here's “Planned Parenthood's 2019-2020 Annual Report” (2021-2022 is not out yet) where you can see these and more disturbing facts and figures for yourself. And said litany includes that “Planned Parenthood” continues to receive both government grants and more than $500 million dollars in taxpayer funding every year, with much of their taxpayer dollars coming through reimbursements for Medicaid services provided...services which are jointly funded by federal and state taxpayers...meaning monies are garnered from even those of us against abortion...and also through Biden's reinstating “Title X,” which President Trump had rescinded, thus allowing federal funds to once again refer women for abortion.

So what are the chances of the Supreme Court reversing “Roe v. Wade” and sending abortion back to the states, especially after the recent memo leak? The chances are still good if and only if the justices don't bend to Democrat pressure, threats against their person, staged revolts by loony leftist women or men who think they can give birth, or to media-generated propaganda, for the truth remains that abortion was and always should be an issue left up to each individual state. 

Remember, in overturning “Roe v. Wade” the justices are not...I repeat not...banning abortion outright but simply removing it from federal protection, thus allowing each state to decide for themselves whether all abortions will be outlawed; if they will implement the “Heartbeat Law” or some variation thereof; or choose or not choose to set a given time frame and/or circumstances in which abortion will be allowed. In other words, giving back to the states the right of “self-determination” that our Founders and Framers laid down as law in the Constitution.

And while so many do hold different views...religiously, personally, and policy wise...than I do in regards to abortion, and believe that Roe v. Wade is “settled law” into perpetuity, the fact remains that abortion itself does make a mockery of our Constitution for nowhere in the Constitution does it say neither in alluding nor in actual words that the killing of her unborn “child” is a woman's right. And what those sitting on Supreme Court back in 1973 forgot when handing down their politically motivated and ever so misguided decision is the scientific fact that there are two lives involved in abortion...the woman's and her innocent “child”...a “child” who has as much right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as she does. 

Simply, children are indeed our country's future, to take away that future takes away the very essence of who we are now and who we will be as a nation in the foreseeable future. Case closed.

Copyright © 2022 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

 

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Op-ed:

Saving 2020

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“You’re going to see the right to life people very harshly criticizing Justice Kavanaugh because this is the second time he disappointed them by presumably agreeing not to interfere with a decision that is perceived as being pro-abortion. They [anti-abortion advocates] were expecting him to be more, let’s say, decidedly pro-life.” - Judge Andrew Napolitano, on Justice Kavanaugh's decision to overturn an appeal to reinstate Indiana's abortion law

As the 2020 election draws near not only is the political discourse heating up but the animosity is heating up as well...discourse and animosity even within ones own party. You're leaning way too far to the left...you're leaning way too far to the right...you're too conservative...you're not conservative enough...I hear it every day. Keep it up folks and the wedge will be driven so deep that the party fractures to such a degree that it cannot be fixed...and here I'm talking about the Republican Party v. those within it who lean decidedly a bit too far to the right regarding certain issues.

First lets get some things straight...there are two main political parties in this country...the Democrat and the Republican party...two parties alone who determine the presidential election. All other political parties including the Independent Party, the Libertarian Party, the Conservative Party, the Constitutional Party, the Green Party, as well as the truly obscure political parties who constitute the “fringe element”...sees that when push comes to shove it's their party's candidate who goes down in flames as the two major parties, for the most part, are the ones to not only get out the vote but get it out in numbers that the other parties can never come close to matching.

That is simple reality folks...reality whether some want to hear it or not.

And another reality...a reality causing a great deal of friction today...is between those who identify as Republicans and those who identify as conservatives but register and vote Republican. These folks are wise enough to know that the Conservative Party itself is not strong enough to win a general election let alone the presidency, and so they register as Republicans as the Democrat Party...the new Democrat-Socialist Party specifically...is not an option...and rightly so.

However, while the Republican Party...the political party of Lincoln and Reagan...does share many conservative leanings that does not mean one has to be a die-hard conservative to be a Republican as there are some key differences between the two. Generally, Republicans do favor small government; states rights; high tariffs on foreign goods (which helps push the “Made in America” scenario); “sound money” tied to the value of gold and tangible "treasure;" reduced taxes as a means of stimulating the economy thus encouraging individual economic stability; are pro-second amendment, pro-military, and want a strong national defense; say NO to ILLEGAL immigration and YES to LEGAL immigration; know the “social issues” belong to the states; the list goes on and on.

Conservatives...or should I say those who embrace the “philosophy of conservatism” for conservatism is but a philosophy...generally favor most things Republicans favor policy wise, but do tend to bring religion and the Holy Bible into most (but not all) of the political discourse, especially discourse regarding the social issues...especially the discourse regarding abortion. That is the main difference between the two entities...that and the fact that while most Republicans honor “separation of church and state” most die-hard conservatives actually want to meld the two together...something our Founding Fathers would never want to see happen.

Then there's a new, while not quite a party but a political movement, by the name of Republican-Conservatives (as opposed to Conservative-Republicans) who take the best policies of the Republican Party and mix it with a healthy but not all consuming dose of the moral compass that now defines the “conservative philosophy.” And by using simple logic and the law as laid down in the Constitution as their legal guideline, Republican-Conservatives strive to present a new option to help bring the two factions together into one cohesive Republican voting block.

And I freely admit I am one of those just named folks for where I differ with die-hard conservatives is that under no circumstances do I want America to become a theocracy...which is what many die-hard conservatives want without actually saying it.

Want an example..how about conservatives recent actions or should I say reactions regarding our newest Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

How so? Many conservatives are now voicing their disappointment in Justice Kavanaugh, the man they counted on being their anti-abortion savior on the High Court. But when a case that could have challenged the constitutional right to abortion recently reached the High Court, Kavanaugh, instead of taking the high moral anti-abortion ground, chose to join with his fellow justices in “sidestepping” a key component of that case. Choosing to overturn an appeal to reinstate Indiana's strict 2016 abortion law...a law banning all abortions at any time during a pregnancy no matter the circumstances...a law which had been signed by then Governor Mike Pence...the justices chose to uphold only part of said law...the part regarding the disposal of “fetal remains.” 
 
In other words, this “without dissent” ruling tried to placate both sides of the abortion issue which can in the end backfire. Placate indeed...to make those on the left happy the ruling did not violate a woman's right to choose abortion or put an “undue burden” on those who choose to abort. How so...because the justices left in place lower court rulings that blocked Indiana's law from making it illegal for a woman to end her pregnancy because of the race or gender of the fetus or if she received a diagnosis of Down syndrome. And to make those on the right somewhat happy the justice's decision treats aborted babies with dignity and respect in regards to body disposal...as in no selling of aborted babies or their body parts allowed...these babies are to be buried or cremated...period.

Some trade-off...huh...no wonder many conservatives are not happy with Justice Kavanaugh right now...but...what they don't understand is that Kavanaugh based his decision not on the moral and religious righteousness of the “philosophy of conservatism” regarding abortion, but solely upon the words of the Constitution...the very document he swore to uphold...which was absolutely the right thing to do.

Putting aside his own personal beliefs regarding abortion, Justice Kavanaugh chose not to play the role of an “activist justice”...a favorite role for liberal Obama-appointed justices and judges...but to rule as the Constitutionalist he always said he would be. And Brett Kavanaugh did so by following the precedent set in Roe v. Wade “faithfully and fully”...his words...in regards to this ruling. Knowing that he could never make all conservatives happy all the time, especially concerning the legalities of abortion, the truth is that nothing will make some die-hard conservatives happy unless the words of the Holy Bible trumps the Constitution as law of our land...a criticism...no, an observation...yes.

But this is not the first time some conservatives have been “irked” by Justice Kavanaugh's decisions, Now seeing him as a “sellout,” these conservatives claim that not only has Kavanaugh sided more with the court's liberal justices than with the other conservative justices, but that he has partnered, if you will, with Chief Justice John Roberts, the very justice regarded by many as not just the current court's swing vote, but as a true sell-out to the Republican Party itself due to his ObamaCare deciding vote.

But this thinking is in error for being more moderate and flexible in certain decisions accomplishes more in the end than being so far to the right in a given situation that one can actually shake hands with the left...emotionally, stubbornly, and ever so misinformed-wise that is.

Misinformed or just simply blinded by their passions has some conservatives forgetting that in regards to the issue of abortion...the number one issue for conservatives... has the justices rightfully moving slowly as they are not yet ready to address abortion head on...not yet ready to revisit let alone 'overturn' Roe v. Wade...at least not during the upcoming presidential election year. A wise move on the conservative justice's part because had the High Court heard the Indiana case, said case would have been “argued” this fall and decided by June 2020...a mere four months before the presidential election.

Now just imagine the Democrat turnout if the Indiana case had led not just to Roe v. Wade being overturned but with it being replaced with a decidedly more stringent anti-abortion ruling. Imagine that turnout while conservatives stayed home reveling in their anti-abortion “mission accomplished” scenario now blind to the fact that whomever the Democrat candidate is could actually win due to sheer Democrat voter turnout alone. Remember, it's always all about votes and by creating an issue that draws voters to the polls, and abortion is such an issue, it is best not to make it the key issue heading into 2020, especially with the Democrat Party being this country's majority party.

And when the majority party is as vile as today's Democrat Party is, the problem is that conservatives tend not to look at the political puzzle fully assembled, but choose instead to look at each individual puzzle piece that suits their specific agenda, in this case their anti-abortion agenda. Dangerous indeed for their Republican counterparts do tend to look more at the puzzle fully assembled even if it means certain pieces are still missing...revisiting Roe v. Wade now is one such missing piece that needs to remain missing until President Trump is reelected. Kavanaugh knew this and acted accordingly.

I hope die-hard conservatives understand that here is where the divide between Republicans and conservatives comes into play with Justice Kavanaugh being but one puzzle piece of the bigger puzzle picture...a picture that has Democrats waiting in the wings to help fracture an already fractured party. The party that booed God and seemingly shuns morality is using God and immorality to divide us even more, and they're getting help from the Rinos who remain the Republicans main Achilles heel.

So how can the Republican Party fully embrace conservatives so as to assure President Trump his second term in office?

Simply, the divisive hot-button issue of abortion must be toned down if not tabled for awhile as now we see states going too far to the right which is as bad as going too far to the left. Republicans know well that the right to have an abortion will remain albeit with stricter guidelines in place, and conservatives must accept this as fact and move on to other more pressing matters...more pressing matters like the economy, illegal immigration, and foreign affairs (including Iran and the Middle East) to name but a few...in order to help Republicans...in order to help Donald Trump...solidify an unbeatable 2020 voting block.

So while die-hard conservatives will always remain staunch proponents of “social conservatism”...Republicans in turn must accept that for those folks their faith will remain a key component of the political discourse with total “separation of church and state” not an option for them. Thankfully, that number does not make up the majority of conservatives... conservatives who understand that while one's faith can be strong they can separate faith from the political discourse.

So...in 2020 here come we Republican-Conservatives to save the day.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:

A Heartbeat and a Ruling...Planned Parenthood Ain't Happy at All

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.”

- Words within Vermont's House Bill H.57

Never did I think that I would be writing another article on abortion yet alone doing so this soon after my two most recent abortion articles Remove Northam...But Not For A 35-Year Old Photo and New York's Descent Into Hell. But it seems abortion is a subject that will not go away, and rightfully so, as abortion has now sadly crossed the line into coldblooded, pre-meditated, and ever so calculated murder of the most helpless amongst us.

Yes murder...and in the state of Vermont it appears to now be outright state sanctioned murder as their newly passed abortion bill clearly states that any interference by “the state, by law enforcement agencies, or by a public entity” to try and stop a women from attempting to “procure or induce” an abortion is “illegal.”

Now expanding Vermont's already existing abortion rights this new bill...H.57...pales even in comparison to New York's and Virginia's abortion bills. Passed last Thursday in Vermont's House...by a vote of 106 to 36...with a Senate vote most likely to pass as Democrats hold a super-majority in Vermont's Senate...the 'Green Mountain State' will now allow abortion to take place at any and all stages of pregnancy and for any and all reasons whatsoever...even giving what amounts to blanket permission for “post-viability” abortion...infanticide if you will. And this bill also gives minors the right to have an abortion with no...I repeat no...parental consent needed. 
 

Basically for Vermont's minors it's abortion as a means of contraception...what has our beloved America come to? 

And not to be overlooked is the fact that H.57 also contains a provision which actually “dehumanizes” unborn children. Stating that, “A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus shall not have independent rights under Vermont law,” this abomination of a bill strips unborn children of any rights or recognition of their “personhood.” So if it's not a "person" that is murdered by the very act of being aborted then what the hell is it that's being discarded like yesterday's trash?

And Vermont Gov. Phil Scott...a Democrat of course...is already salivating over his upcoming signing of this bill.

So while Vermont's Republican House members did try hard to at least amend and temper down this monstrosity of a bill...including their wanting a key amendment that would require a woman to receive an ultrasound before aborting their baby in addition to the aforementioned parental consent for minors...their demands of course fell on deaf ears. And why...because Democrats as a whole... both in Vermont and apparently nationwide...now see abortion...now see infanticide...as a no questions asked no answers needed fundamental right afforded women under Roe v. Wade...instead of what more times than not is a last ditch choice made out of desperation, fear, and hopelessness, coupled with a resounding sense of guilt.

But even guilt cannot alter the facts that as of today, according to recent polls, a full fifty-five percent of Americans consider themselves unabashedly pro-choice, while just 38 percent consider themselves fully pro-life...with the rest making up the remaining seven percent who fall somewhere in between. And I personally seem to fall within that seven percent as I do support abortion in incidents of rape, incest, when the life of the mother is in immediate jeopardy, and when a baby is so medically compromised that it has zero chance of survival outside the womb, yet at the same time I do support the “Heartbeat Law”...a law where once a heartbeat is detected via a vaginal ultrasound...and hopefully except in those four aforementioned cases...abortion would become a no-no.

And why do I support the wanting of a “Heartbeat Law”... a law some on the left claim was solely “designed” to give the Supreme Court an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade which it was not...because the true scientific fact is that without a beating heart a human being is not “alive” per se (I do not believe that life begins at conception)... and if one is not “alive” one is not conscious of nor does one feel pain. But once the heart starts beating we enter another whelm completely and with the human heart starting to beat between day's 18 to 21 after conception so does it become a human being. And while some women don't know they're pregnant that early on they do know when they've missed a period or two, and at that point a heartbeat is well established…no abortion for you...except...and again I hope...in the four stated cases.

A “Heartbeat Law” plus specifically laid out “exceptions” seems like a fair compromise to me, and states like North Dakota (the first to enact such a law back in 2012), Arkansas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi, not only have such a law in place but also ban abortions in full at 20 weeks gestation and later...basically when a fetus becomes “viable”...as in it can live independently of its mother. 
 

And both Alabama and West Virginia also entered into the abortion fray when their states respective voters approved ballot measures that amended both their state's constitutions in ways that do not, at this time, change abortion rights in their states but could play a role if by some chance Roe v. Wade were to be overturned...which by the way it won't be as precedence has already been set. In Alabama, for example, the ballot measure gave the unborn protective “legal rights,” while in West Virginia, their state constitution was amended to stress these simple yet direct words, "nothing in this constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion." 
 
And right now 14 other states are considering implementing a “Heartbeat Law” including my state of Florida where there is a bill...HB 235...currently being introduced into our state legislature. And while Florida law currently prohibits third trimester abortions except in cases of medical necessity, this bill, actually two bills combined into one, aims to not only ban women from getting an abortion after a fetus' heartbeat is detected, but does not allow exceptions for rape or incest. And if the "Heartbeat Law" is passed any violation of said law would render the woman who had an abortion and the doctor who preformed the abortion a third-degree felon. 
 
So while I do understand the emotions at play behind the “Heartbeat Law,” and know I am in support of said law, my support, unfortunately, comes with a caveat for I unequivocally believe that exceptions must be made in regards to rape and incest...especially when it concerns gang rape. No woman should be forced to carry to term a baby conceived in such a vile and violently forced way... and I for one will vote against such a law without those exceptions in place if it ever had to be voted on by we Floridians. 
 
But I don't believe such a “Heartbeat Law” as the one Florida is proposing...a bill without any exceptions at all...will ever come to fruition as Florida's Supreme Court, even while leaning conservative, would first have to wait for precedence to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court...precedence set in Roe v. Wade (and in other cases) that states cannot impose an "undue burden" on a woman seeking an abortion before fetal viability is reached which usually happens between 24 and 26 weeks gestation. 
 
And while Democrats will continue on in their efforts to shove their extremist views on the entirety of reproductive rights down America's collective throat, overturning precedence... which in the past has been done in certain key instances...I believe in the particular case of abortion will not be done as to do so would only serve to delegitimize the Supreme Court itself which is something I highly doubt the justices would be willing to do. Hence, abortion will remain an option but with adjustments to current laws made by some states...the “Heartbeat Law” being just one such adjustment.

And yet another key adjustment regarding abortion was made just last Friday when, thanks to President Trump and his administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced what has come to be know as the Protect Life final ruling...a ruling which will now partially defund the abortion mill known as Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. How so...via its new requirements that federal “TitleX” family planning funds cannot go to abortion facilities, while also denying “Title X” locations from giving abortion referrals. 
 
In fact, the new ruling...done to ensure both transparency and the legal and ethical use of taxpayer funds...also states that a "financial physical separation" between facilities and programs where abortion is a method of family planning must be in place, while also eliminating the current requirement that, “Title X providers offer abortion counseling and referral.”

Simply, Planned Parenthood abortions will no longer be financed by our taxpayer dollars being funneled through “Title X”...and that is a very good thing indeed.

But what exactly is “Title X” some might ask...created in 1970, “Title X” is basically a federal family planning grant program...a program to the tune of $286.5 million...whose sole purpose is to provide individuals with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services with its funding arm ensuring that each and every person no matter where they live, their background, their income, or whether or not they have health insurance has access to basic, preventive reproductive health care.

Translation: government interference in all aspects of procreation...before, during, and after sex.

And know that Planned Parenthood is hopping mad what with it being our country's largest provider of abortions and with its having about 41 percent of all “Title X” patients, mostly low-income women or so they claim. Now fearing the loss of a good chunk of the $60 million they already receive from said “Title X” program, Planned Parenthood is not happy with the fact that while the new ruling would not reduce the overall amount of federal funds spent on family planning itself, it will redirect monies to “Title X” centers that do not promote or perform abortions thus taking needed funding away from them and giving it to (gasp) faith-based groups instead.

Killing unborn children costs Planned Parenthood a lot of money you know.

So where do we stand now that a final ruling is in place? First, while in place the new rules are not yet official as they still need to be published in the Federal Register and get through the 60-day waiting period to go into effect. Second, so-called reproductive rights advocates fully expect lawsuits challenging the rule to be filed way before the ruling goes into effect. In fact, Planned Parenthood's Deputy Director of Public Policy Litigation and Law Carrie Flaxman said that the organization is already reviewing their legal options in regards to fighting this new ruling and is “committed to fighting it.”
 
And the ACLU, as expected, is already sticking their nose into the mix with ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Senior Staff Attorney Ruth Harlow, saying in a statement that, "Nobody should be denied access to reproductive health care or receive inadequate care because of their lack of income," and that the ACLU is also currently reviewing the legal options and are, like Planned Parenthood, committed to fighting back.

And lastly comes the playing of the Trump is a racist game which has already begun what with the National Hispanic Medical Association Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Judith Flores, MD, already throwing down the “race card” by saying that, “As physicians we cannot silently standby and allow the Trump Administration to increase healthcare disparities."
 
Honestly, I see no disparities at all as “Title X” is open to anyone no matter their race, color, income, or creed proving that the “race card” is getting both tiring and old for it's not President Trump's fault that Americans who value the sanctity of human life are tired of the killing of our unborn. I know I am...how about you?

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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